This article is a couple of weeks old (May 18), but it is one of the most thorough accounts of Election 2004 in Blackwell's Ohio. This passage refers to something that I hadn't been aware of, and which I found fascinating in its revelation of Blackwell's audacity in the face of Ohio law...
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=34681 He also did his utmost to block public access to election data, ordering the Boards of Election in all eighty-eight Ohio counties to prevent public inspection of poll books until after certification of the vote, which he delayed until December 6th.<20> On December 10th, his Election Administrator, Pat Wolfe, intervened to prevent analysis of poll-book data by ordering, on Blackwell's authority, a renewed "lock-down" of voting records in Greene County and the entire state. (According to Ohio Revised Code Title XXXV Elections, Sec. 3503.26, such records are to be open to the public; Ohio Revised Code Sec. 3599.42 explicitly declares that any violation of Title XXXV "constitutes a prima facie case of election fraud....")
(Emphasis mine.)
We really need to nail this asshat. He's a criminal and a snake through & through.
If this is a dupe (it should be), sorry.